Mc Cabe This long lived firm had a very high reputation for fine watches and clocks concentrating particularly on the Indian Market where an agency was maintained. The founder was James Mc Cabe, one of three horologist sons of the watch- and clockmaker William Mc Cabe of Lisburn in Ireland, who moved to London in the third quarter of the 18th century. In 1778 he was in 11 Bell's Buildings, Fleet Street; in 1783 at 34 King Street, Cheapside; in 1788 at 8 King Street, Cheapside and 97 Cornhill, Royal Exchange in 1804. In April 1781 he was admitted as an honorary freeman of the Clockmaker's Company, being summoned to take up the livery in 1787. Although McCabe used a wide variety of escapements, he is particularly associated with the improvement of the duplex. On his death in 1811 he was Senior Warden of the Company. He was succeeded in business by his son also James McCabe who for unknown reasons had been apprenticed to the Edinburgh makers Reid & Auld and was not free of the Clockmaker's Company of London until 1822. The business continued at 97 and 99 Cornhill until 1838, when the Royal Exchange was destroyed by fire, thereafter continuing at 32 Cornhill. Subsequently the business was continued by Mc Cabe's nephew, Robert Jeremy Mc Cabe, who closed the business when he retired in 1883. Literature: Charles Allix & Peter Bonnert, Carriage Clocks their History & Development, Woodbridge, 1974, pp 278-81. F. J. Britten, Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers..., 6th edit., London, 1932, pp. 792-3.